Retail Metrics Inc

Retail Metrics is a boutique market research firm providing unique retail industry data and research to institutional investors with significant consumer holdings, including some of the biggest mutual fund houses, hedge funds, money managers, and traders, to assist in their investment decisions. Retail Metrics generates consensus same store sales estimates from Wall Street retail industry analysts’ forecasts for major U.S. publicly traded retailers, providing investors with a one-stop shop for SSS & earnings data and analysis. Retail Metrics data and research products include: • Quarterly indices for retailer earnings surprise, revenue, earnings, and SSS growth across 100 publicly traded retailers and 15 sub-industry groups. • Regular earnings reports analyzing retail earnings growth projections relative to S&P500, earnings estimate revision trends, reported retail earnings, and earnings pre-announcement data, including negative/positive ratios. • Multiple research reports per quarter analyzing trends in same store sales data, including regular highlights of retailers with the toughest/easiest comparisons, widest estimate variances, and longest positive & negative surprise trends. Reports integrate surprise history, pre-announcement ratios, economic indicators, earnings, and SSS estimate revision patterns to provide context to the data. • Daily before and after market data feeds updating reported monthly & quarterly same store and total sales. • Monthly report analyzing Census Bureau retail sales data including 16 sub-industry groups. • Analysis of monthly macroeconomic data and impact on consumer spending/retail earnings. • Holiday retail sales analyses and updates October through February. • Comparison of retail earnings and revenue for Mall and Off-mall retailers. • Retail store closures and bankruptcies. • Historical data for same store sales, consensus estimates, and retail earnings. • Custom products to meet clients’ specific needs.